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Found a new pinball place nearby, picked this up after having a lot of fun with Safe Cracker. Great pack, love Safe Cracker and Champion Pub, indifferent on Theatre of Magic. Just wanted to post a counter-argument to guy trashing Safe Cracker.
I will say I am admittedly an amateur with pinball machines, but I think Safe Cracker has an awesome layout. I'm a fan of spinners(edit: wheels? Reels? I think I actually meant wheels.), and this was the first table I saw with one. The guy saying this is the worst table is out of his mind. He makes it sound like the right side is completely non-interactive (top right is a field of bumpers that leads to a flipper in the midfield or the bottom flippers depending on the lane it takes, and no it's not like it's stuck up there forever or something), or that the playfield is too cramped to direct your shots (it absolutely is not). And while the board game might not be everyone's cup of tea, it absolutely does NOT just play itself. You control the wheel with the flipper buttons... the things you've been using to slap the ball? When I'm trying hard I'm not too bad at rolling the number I want with the fast flipper, and when I'm feeling lazy I leave it to semi-chance with the slow flipper (still kinda have a good feel for decent rolls with that one too tho). It might not be everyone's cup of tea, and you might not have the reflexes to get the number you want, but it certainly doesn't "hold you hostage" for 3-4 minutes unless you just never read the back glass and tried using the flipper buttons at all... which is what I'm assuming the guy that hates this games so much did. I could see why someone would have their opinion if that's the case. That said, even if you're not a fan of the board game, this table has a good layout with a few gimmicks in it's favor that make it stand out from other tables. I also really love the fact that this table basically plays on one ball with infinite ball save and a timer instead of starting with 3-5 balls like most machines, really cool.
Edit: after 5 games with a few breaks in between for other tables, finally got the vault award with a magic token... that you can use whenever you start a new game if you want to play a multiball jackpot game that is really fun! Frickin LOVE Safe Cracker, definitely one of my top 5 tables on here. Guess you'll either love it or hate it, but I plan on taking a serious crack at that high score now that I'm getting the hang of it.
Edit 2: Went back to my local machine and found out it spits out custom coins just like this game!! So. Freaking. Cool. If you hate Safe Cracker then your inner child is dead :p Also, Theatre of Magic is growing on me.
Some Safe Cracker tips to hopefully help someone:
-The wheel on the board game is *not* random. I have no actual *proof* of this (though I could probably google the wheel's pattern if I wanted to) and it flashes by really fast, but it definitely feels like a consistent wheel. If you have *real* bad luck on the wheel, try landing consistent skill shots in The Champion Pub. That wheel moves much slower and is very easy to land the skill shot you want with practice.
-The negative values on the board game aren't all that bad... the only one I dread is the alarm. If you land on Cyberdog, all you have to do is go back into an entrance to disable Cyberdog until you either go in the vault or fail the board game, giving you $25,000 whenever you land on his square in the meantime (if you're real good with the pin on this table, you can use Cyberdog to your advantage as you can enter the board though a closer entrance to the vault AND disable Cyberdog in one go). The alarm on the other hand...I haven't figured out how to get into the cellar entrance yet.
-The Candy-2000 is also a somewhat frustrating space to land on. If you want to have good luck landing something consistent here, probably worth googling codes(haven't bothered yet, VLT and KEY both work... GUY doesn't :p). As far as getting the timing right to make the right selection, DON'T stare at the selection box, look ahead of it so you can see the letters coming before you need to select them (look for the beginning letter specifically, if you see V for instance, you'll know to look for VLT in the box),